Questions for week February 23rd - March 1st

I Love My Church

Serve Others

1) Just for fun: What is your favorite movie quote?

2) Talk about a time when you got to see people in a new context (for example, going out to dinner with cowokers). How did that experience change the relationships in that group?

3) How do you think doing something together as a group outside of your group meetings could change the relationships in this group?

4) What is the connection between investing in others and growing in your relationship with God?  Why do you think God set things up that way?

5) How could serving others change people’s perceptions of Christians and the church? Was your perception of Christians and the church ever changed because someone served you?

6) What kind of things keep us from investing in others?

7) Is there an organization or particular group in need that is near and dear to your heart? If so, talk about why you feel a desire to help that organization or group.

It’s not our responsibility to change the world, only to play our part. It is true that you cannot serve everyone in need, but you can serve someone in need.

End your time talking about ways you can serve others as a group.

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Questions for week February 16th - 22nd

I Love My Church

Love People

Luke 10:25-37

1) Just for Fun: Give everyone a sheet of paper and have them pair up and write down as many songs with the word “Love” in the title that they can come up with. And if you could not think of any, click here to see 565 of them. Also, you may want to give some chocolate to the ones who named the most songs.

Read Luke 10:25-37

2) Why do you think Jesus chose to include a priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan as characters in this story?

3) Reread verse 29. What do you think is the real question the Jewish lawyer was asking?  The Jewish lawyer wanted to do only what he had to do when it came to loving people. Have you ever found yourself doing the same? Why do you think we have a tendency at times to give our least to those in need of it the most?

4) What natural motivations make it more easy to act like the priest and the Levite than like the Samaritan?

5) How practical was the Samaritan’s approach to the man in need? Do you have a tendency to over complicate Loving People? 

6) Compassion moved the Good Samaritan to action. What things are you compassionate about that move you to action?

7) If you have a Good Samaritan story in your life, (where you have been blessed by a Good Samaritan or you have been a Good Samaritan), share your story with your life group.

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Questions for week February 9th - 15th

I Love My Church

Love God

1) Just for Fun: Give everyone a sheet of paper and have them pair up and write down as many songs with the word “Love” in the title that they can come up with. And if you could not think of any, click here to see 565 of them. Also, you may want to give some chocolate to the ones who named the most songs.

2) How would you answer someone if they asked you what it means to love God?

3) Whose life would you say is great example of Loving God passionately, personally, powerfully and intelligently? Which of those four ways to love God are you strong at? Which are you striving to grow more in?

4) One fruit of Loving God is trusting God completely. Think about a painful or hard situation you are going through right now or have gone through recently. How do you think completely trusting that God is in control and is trustworthy would change the way you look at your circumstances? The way

you behave? Or the way you perceive God?

5) Another fruit is to share Christ courageously. Who shared Christ with you courageously? Who are some people that you know you need to share Christ with?  (As you close your time together, pray for one another to have the courage to share Christ courageously with those who need Him.)

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Questions for week February 2nd - 8th

Step Up Step Out

1) Just for fun: We are one month in to 2014, if you made any New Year’s resolutions, share how they are going.

2) Share about the last time you took a huge step of faith believing for God to bless it? What was the outcome? 

3) What are some reasons people don’t live a life of greater faith and purpose? 

4) What would your family and friends say is the driving force of your life? What do you want it to be?

5) How would you encourage someone who is struggling to believe for God to do great things for them, in them, and through them?

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